"[Arrington] said that he liked them because they launched at his
conference, and had written dozens of puff pieces on them, with
the expectation that they would give him first tip on any
important news. He actually said, 'Do you think anybody cares
about whether you change your font? Well, we wrote it anyway.' He
read out a long list of dates on which they had written about
Groupme. Like 20."

"And then [Arrington talked about how] Groupme gave a scoop about
some company they bought to the WSJ. [Because of that] Arrington said they
would now be cut off."

A source familiar with Groupme's press strategy says the company
plans to continue giving most of its news to TechCrunch – not out
of fear of Arrington, but because the startup launched at a
TechCrunch conference.

Another source who was there tells us the whole thing was a bit
"tongue-in-cheek." This source declined to elaborate further
because he didn't want to anger Arrington.

"I work for a tiny little startup and I need to be friends with
all the blogs."